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How to Make Money Spying on Your Blog Competitors

How to Make Money Spying on Your Blog Competitors

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Did you know you can finally monetize your blog and make money blogging by spying on your blog competitors?

This is a little tactic that top bloggers have been doing for years.

It’s so simple and totally free to do.

Here’s what you need to get started:

  • Internet access
  • Access to a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or other device to browse online

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spying on your competitors make money blogging

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1 How to Make Money Spying on Your Blog Competitors
2 What are Blog Sponsorships?
3 Blogging Hack to Spy on the Competition
4 Summary
4.1 Recommended Blogging Resources
4.2 Siteground
4.3 Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing
4.4 Canva

How to Make Money Spying on Your Blog Competitors

First of all, this little strategy helps you monetize your blog with blog sponorships.

Blog sponsorships or brand deals or brand collaborations or blog collaborations (all the same thing) are when you get paid to work with a company/brand.

They pay you to mention them on your platform:

  • Blog
  • Social media
  • Email list

So, it’s a cool way to get paid to blog.

Top bloggers can earn up to six figures per year or more, partnering with brands in blog sponsorships.

What are Blog Sponsorships?

You, as the blogger, will partner with a company/brand/product to feature them on your platform.

Here are some examples:

  • Sponsored post
  • Sponsored giveaway
  • Social media mention
  • Email list inclusion
  • Social media syndication
  • Sidebar ad

First, you coordinate the sponsorships with the brand.

Then, you get paid.

Then, you launch the collaboration.

It’s a pretty easy process but it can feel difficult and overwhelming if you don’t know what you’re doing.

Here’s a hack to help you find blog sponsors fast and easy.

Blogging Hack to Spy on the Competition

You go to your top competitors that do blog sponsorships and you see who those sponsors are.

Then, you pitch them to work with you!

Here’s an example.

I’m a food blogger so I head to a top food blog and see who their sponsors are.

I find their “search” bar and type “sponsored”

Here’s the search page of a top food blog:

 

 

After searching for “sponsored” on the blog, you’ll see the posts that have the word “sponsored” in them, which will likely lead you to sponsored posts. Some blogs even have a page dedicated to brands/media that talk about their sponsored work, like this one:

blog sponsorships

 

This tells you the specific brands the blogger has worked with, which means that they are friendly to blogs and if you contacted them, they wouldn’t be thrown off about a blogger reaching them, as they might be if they were unfamiliar with blog sponsorships and never partnered with a blogger before.

Make sense?

I like to think of it as a warmer kind of outreach. Although you may have never worked with the company, they have done sponsorships before and therefore are familiar with the process, procedure, etc.

So this is the strategy you can use to find sponsorships on blog competitors.

Pretty easy, right?

Summary

I hope you enjoyed reading about this little hack.

Have you ever done blog sponsorships? What’s your opinion about them? Share your thoughts down below in comments.

Recommended Blogging Resources

Siteground

This hosting provider is my number one pick for web host. They offer unparalleled support, affordable pricing, and a bunch of awesome perks included with your hosting package.

Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing

To make the most money blogging I highly recommend that you monetize your blog with affiliate marketing. And if you want to earn the most blogging with affiliate marketing, you have got to take Michelle‘s making sense of affiliate marketing training.

After I took this course, within 2 to 3 weeks I made 10 times my regular monthly affiliate income going from around $80 per month to over $800 the next month.

You’ll find tons of great information, support, access to other students who have taken the training and she does a really excellent job of updating the content and material in the course. Highly recommended.

Click this link to take a look at the training and if you buy using my affiliate link, contact me and I’ll send you $50 off one of my courses, your pick!

Canva

From designing your blog graphics to customizing your email header or creating pins for Pinterest, you’ll find everything that you need and design software from Canva.

Canva is one of the best resources for blogging and it’s totally free.

I have been using the software for over two years now and absolutely love it. If you have no design skills at all you can totally make smashing graphics using Canvas easy-to-use software. They have an app too and I use it to design on the go on my cell phone and iPad.

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